DOI: 10.1063/1.4869851. Persistent conductive footprints of 109° domain walls in bismuth ferrite films

Persistent conductive footprints of 109° domain walls in bismuth ferrite films

10.1063/1.4869851

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Abstract

Using conductive and piezoforce microscopy, we reveal a complex picture of electronic transport at weakly conductive 109° domain walls in bismuth ferrite films. Even once initial ferroelectric stripe domains are changed/erased, persistent conductive paths signal the original domain wall position. The conduction at such domain wall “footprints” is activated by domain movement and decays rapidly with time, but can be re-activated by opposite polarity voltage. The observed phenomena represent true leakage conduction rather than merely displacement currents. We propose a scenario of hopping transport in combination with thermionic injection over interfacial barriers controlled by the ferroelectric polarization.

Bibliography

Stolichnov, I., Iwanowska, M., Colla, E., Ziegler, B., Gaponenko, I., Paruch, P., Huijben, M., Rijnders, G., & Setter, N. (2014). Persistent conductive footprints of 109Â° domain walls in bismuth ferrite films. Applied Physics Letters, 104(13).

Authors 9

I. Stolichnov (first)
M. Iwanowska (additional)
E. Colla (additional)
B. Ziegler (additional)
I. Gaponenko (additional)
P. Paruch (additional)
M. Huijben (additional)
G. Rijnders (additional)
N. Setter (additional)

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Type	When
Created	11 years, 4 months ago (April 1, 2014, 8:22 a.m.)
Deposited	2 years, 2 months ago (June 18, 2023, 12:26 a.m.)
Indexed	2 weeks, 5 days ago (Aug. 2, 2025, 12:33 a.m.)
Issued	11 years, 4 months ago (March 31, 2014)
Published	11 years, 4 months ago (March 31, 2014)
Published Online	11 years, 4 months ago (March 31, 2014)
Published Print	11 years, 4 months ago (March 31, 2014)

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BibTeX

@article{Stolichnov_2014, title={Persistent conductive footprints of 109° domain walls in bismuth ferrite films}, volume={104}, ISSN={1077-3118}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4869851}, DOI={10.1063/1.4869851}, number={13}, journal={Applied Physics Letters}, publisher={AIP Publishing}, author={Stolichnov, I. and Iwanowska, M. and Colla, E. and Ziegler, B. and Gaponenko, I. and Paruch, P. and Huijben, M. and Rijnders, G. and Setter, N.}, year={2014}, month=mar }

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